Comment & Opinion

A billboard went up in Scranton this month inviting Gov. Josh Shapiro to “be normal.” The sign, funded by Voices of Americans, a newly formed conserva...

The President of the United States “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Conside...

PHILADELPHIA  (TNS) — When my neighbor told me during last month’s snowstorm that I had to shovel the sidewalk around my house, I thought she was joki...

Pennsylvania’s hunting regulators are looking to expand an initiative that connects landowners in need of help with deer management and hunters who ar...

Is reality finally settling in on Capitol Hill? The nation can only hope. As the national debt rushes toward $39 trillion, and Social Security and Med...

The latest joint polling effort between RealClear Opinion Research and Emerson Polling explores attitudes toward immigration and immigration reform in...

The kindling for catastrophe was piled high. It only needed a match. The 2020s began with a pandemic that shut us in and shattered our shared reality....

So what has Congress done for you lately? Big Beautiful Bill? Sure. I’ll give you that one. And it covered a huge amount of ground, from tax cuts to b...

Some people tend to think of sports as a diversion, and plenty others don’t think much of them at all. Maybe, for many not interested in athletic spec...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania's top leaders want to avoid another ugly, monthslong budget standoff, showing resolve this year to begin negotiations ...

Kaleida Health has hijacked our hospital and is holding us hostage. At the very least we desperately need the choice to be taken by ambulance to a hos...

Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda, ruling that the White House doesn’t have th...

Not since the Interstate Highway System has the United States faced a physical infrastructure issue as complex and consequential as data centers. As w...

Memories tend to be short in American politics, but it was not so long ago that Donald Trump was a first term president and, if we're to be honest, a ...

Have you ever noticed periods in life when certain words keep coming to mind? Sometimes, they are terms that have become popular in our culture. At th...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For three years, the manufacturing sector has been beaten up badly, the result of failed public policy on regulation, energy and in...

“It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States … should unite in forming a system of national Go...

Democrats don’t want you to notice the deadly consequences of not enforcing immigration laws. A partial government shutdown began over the weekend. Se...

Even good news generates controversy in these polarizing times. Violent crime is cratering in the United States, according to national statistics. Las...

We got a kick out of an old chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those a...